Norman The Doorman

Don Freeman

Edité par The Viking Press, New York, 1959

First Edition ( 'Published in 1959 by The Viking Press' ). There are only a few of the original 1959 First Editions of Norman The Doorman for sale on the Internet. I have priced mine considerably lower than the prior least expensive one for sale anywhere on the Internet. I've rated the book only Good. You can see the covers in the photos. The front and rear have some handling soiling. The spine has a little tanning at both ends. The front top edge has one little nick. The cover edges are in solid shape, the bottom ones have some light soiling. The corners are in good shape, a slight bit of rubbing at the bottom two. The spine has a slight forward lean, but the book is very solidly bound from cover to cover. I turned over all the pages. There are no cracks or spaces between any of them. There is a thin space going down only 1/2 inch from the top edge at the juncture between the illustrated front inside cover and the illustrated front end paper. The end paper is solidly bound from top to bottom, and both covers are solidly, tightly bound. The interior of the book is in good condition. I counted nineteen tiny to small spots of soiling over the 64 pages of text, all at the white margins, none on the illustrations. There is also one small amber spot on the illustrated front inside cover, two or three on the illustrated rear inside cover, and three or four on the illustrated rear end paper. I didn't see any significant creasing, but most of the pages have a tiny, light crease just above the tip of their bottom corners. I didn't see any placeholder creases. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. I've also rated the dust jacket only Good. You can see it in the first three photographs. I've always had it in a fitted protective cover. There is a loss at the top edge of the spine that just barely touches the edge of the first letter of the title. The smaller loss at the bottom nips off the bottom part of the last letter of the publishers name. There is a 1 3/4 inch tear going down the juncture between the front cover and the front flap. A sliver of the paper there is gone. The three other corners on the middle edge junctures have only tiny bits of loss. There are also a handful of edge tears, and there is soiling on the spine and on the front cover. The flaps are in pretty good shape. The tip of the front flap's top corner has a tiny crease. There is a small sliver of loss adjacent to the middle edge juncture with the front cover. The rear flap has one light amber spot, a couple of tiny creases or crinkles. The jacket is NOT price-clipped (has the original $3.00 price), not clipped at all. As earlier mentioned, it is protected by a fitted cover. 'Don Freeman was an American painter, printmaker, cartoonist, and an illustrator and writer of children's books. He studied at the Art Students League of New York where he studied graphic design and lithography under John Sloan, Harry Wickey, and Kathryn E. Cherry. He was first introduced to children's literature when William Saroyan asked him to illustrate several books. These include Human Comedy, which is considered one of his best-known works. However, his greatest influence came from the artist Honoré Daumier. Freeman studied many of Daumier's works, particularly his caricatures. He also owned a large collection of books on the artist. 'Simplicity is the essence of children's-book stories, not simple-mindedness', Freeman once stated when speaking to an audience that was interested in writing, illustrating, and publishing children's books. When Freeman lived in New York City during the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s, he was a brilliant illustrator of city life in the best traditions of Social Realism. In 1976, he was recognized by the City of New York for his body of work portraying the city. He won the Caldecott Medal in 1958 for Fly High, Fly Low.'. N° de réf. du vendeur 004973

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Norman The Doorman
Éditeur : The Viking Press, New York
Date d'édition : 1959
Reliure : Hardcover
Illustrateur : Don Freeman
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : Good
Edition : 1st Edition